US EditionWhen Lake Michigan freezes, even its lighthouses grow beards
Great Lakes ice cover surged to nearly 37% basin-wide, more than doubling in a week, while over 100 Chicagoans braved subzero polar plunges in Lake Michigan this winter.
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Winter lake swimmers get a polar plunge with a dopamine chaser
Chicago braced against some of the coldest wind chills of the season this weekend, forcing many to remain indoors. But George "Iceberg" Miller and a small group of friends did the opposite. They plunged into Lake Michigan. A California native who used to hate the cold, Miller has been jumping in the lake every day this winter. What started at the recommendation of a yoga instructor, has become an opportunity for Miller and his wife, Jesy Grose, …
Parts of Lake Michigan, US, have frozen over as a polar vortex sweeps across the country, bringing freezing temperatures. A new video shows the effect of those cold temperatures on Lake Michigan. It shows ice stretching across a section of it. Nathan Voytovick, who runs Nate's Dronography, said that "Lake Michigan is freezing fast." The footage comes as arctic air from Canada is expected to hit much of the US and winter warnings have been issued…
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UpstractGreat Lakes ice resurges this winter, but unpredictable shifts threaten businesses and ecosystem
On a brisk January day with wind chills plunging to minus 25 degrees, Paul “Blade” Bloedorn stood out on nearly 2 feet of ice on Lake Michigan’s Little Bay de Noc. Last weekend, more than 400 shacks speckled the frozen bay, Bloedorn recalled, as ice anglers flocked to the Upper Peninsula to take advantage of perfect ice conditions. “It’s truly the best time to fish the Noc,” Bloedorn wrote in a blog post to his 10,000 Facebook followers. “Enjoy …
Ice coats lighthouse in Michigan ahead of Arctic front
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (CBS, KYMA) - Thick ice coated a lighthouse off the coast of Grand Haven, Michigan Wednesday, ahead of an Arctic front expected to bring hazardously cold temperatures to the region. The footage was captured and posted to Facebook by Nathan Voytovick, who operates Nate's Dronography, with a caption reading, "The Grand Haven Lighthouse has its famous ice beard back…Lake Michigan is rapidly freezing as well…feet of solid ice." Th…
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